Argous Portus

• Portus Argōus

Named for the circumstance that the Argonauts were believed to have touched there on their return voyage, while sailing in quest of Circe.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [arˈɡoː.ʊs ˈpɔr.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [arˈɡɔː.us ˈpɔr.t̪us]

Argōus Portus m sg (genitive Argōī Portūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension

1. a harbour on the northern coast of Elba, now Portoferraio

Second-declension noun with a fourth-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “ARGO´US PORTUS”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly